eas, and by
him they were bequeathed to the Bodleian Library. Hearne's diary and
note-books, in about one hundred and fifty small duodecimo volumes, were
among them.[66] His printed books were sold by Thomas Osborne on the
16th of February 1736, and following days. The title-page of the
catalogue reads: 'A Catalogue of the Valuable Library of that great
Antiquarian Mr. Tho. Hearne of Oxford: and of another Gentleman of
Note. Consisting of a very great Variety of Uncommon Books, and scarce
ever to be met withal.

Which will begin to be sold very cheap, the lowest Price mark'd in each
Book, at T. Osborne's Shop in Gray's Inn, on Monday the 16th day of
February 1735-36.'

The title-page has also a small portrait of Hearne, with the following
lines below it:--

'Pox on't quoth time to Thomas Hearne,
Whatever I forget, you learn.'

The catalogue contains six thousand seven hundred and seventy-six lots.

Hearne's publications, which were almost all printed by subscription at
Oxford, are very numerous. Among the most valuable are an edition of
Livy in 6 vols., 1708; the _Life of Alfred the Great_, from Sir John
Spelman's manuscript in the Bodleian Library, 1710; Leland's
_Itinerary_, 9 vols., 1710; Leland's _Collectanea_, 6 vols., 1715;
Roper's _Life of Sir Thomas More_, 1716; Camden's _Annals_, 3 vols.,
1717; _Curious Discourses by Eminent Antiquaries_, 1720; Robert of
Gloucester's _Chronicle_, 2 vols., 1724; Peter of Langtoft's
_Chronicle_, 2 vols., 1725; _Liber Niger Scaccarii_, 2 vols., 1728; and
Walter of Hemingford's _History_, 2 vols., 1731.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 66: Extracts from these volumes were published by Dr. Bliss in
1857, and again in 1869, under the title of _Reliquiae Hearnianae_; and
Hearne's _Remarks and Collections_ are now being printed by the Oxford
Historical Society.]

THOMAS RAWLINSON, 1681-1725

Thomas Rawlinson, who, Dibdin says, 'may be called the Leviathan of
book-collectors during nearly the first thirty years of the eighteenth
century,' was born in the Old Bailey on the 25th of March 1681. He was
the eldest son of Sir Thomas Rawlinson, Lord Mayor of London in 1705-6,
by Mary, eldest daughter of Richard Tayler, of Turnham Green, Middlesex,
who kept the Devil Tavern near Temple Bar. He was also an elder brother
of Dr. Richard Rawlinson, the nonjuring bishop, who was himself an
ardent collector. In 1699 he matriculated at the University of Oxford
from St. John's College, h